New Opera Days Ostrava

Source: Ostrava Center for New Music.

New Opera Days Ostrava is a biennial festival exploring new possibilities in music-theater, including premieres of works composed specifically for the festival. Its 3rd biennial will take place from June 27 – 30, 2016 at a wide range of Ostrava venues – two opera houses (the traditional Antonin Dvořák Theater and the modern Myron Theater, cultural center Cooltour as well as Ostrava alternative industrial spaces such as Coal Mine Hlubina.

Festival will feature five operas by composers from the Czech Republic (Petr Cígler), Hungary (György Ligeti), Great Britain (Richard Ayres), Greece (Iannis Xenakis), and a Polish-Iran partners (Martyna Kosecka and Idin Samimi Mofakham). There will be two world premieres (Cígler and Kosecka / Mofakham), the premiere of a staged version of opera by Richard Ayres, and two Czech premieres (Xenakis, Ligeti).